# Noli me tangere [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 209 x 131 cm ## Commentary Caracciolo was one of the first and most important Neapolitan exponents of the Caravaggesque trends straddling luminism and naturalism between 1607 and 1615. Around 1618, however, the artist turned to monumental forms and carefully studied compositional solutions, taking up the example of Annibale Carracci in particular. The attribution of the present painting to Caracciolo was confirmed when his initials were noted on the vase of ointment. Regarding the iconography of Christ wearing a gardener's hat, the same solution had been adopted in the sixteenth century in some cases, e.g. <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/f/fontana/lavinia/jesusapp.html'\)" href="/html/f/fontana/lavinia/jesusapp.html">by Lavinia Fontana.</a> ## Related artworks - [A Young Man]() - [Christ and Caiaphas]() - [Lamentation of Adam and Eve on the Dead Abel]() - [Liberation of St Peter]() - [Salome]() - [Scenes from the Life of St Januarius]() - [Sleeping Cupid]() - [St Onophrius]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()